Elders in the RPCNA
30. September 2017
As a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, you have likely considered the question, what does it mean to be Reformed Presbyterian? Perhaps the ...
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Why Women Deacons?
30. September 2017
Two NAPARC denominations asked questions of the RPCNA’s Interchurch Committee regarding doctrinal differences, including the practice of women ...
Women Deacons in the RPCNA
30. September 2017
Updated 10/20/17 McKeesport, Pa., seems an unlikely location for an ecclesiastical revolution, but one occurred there in 1888. McKeesport is located ...
Service Doesn’t Stop after Retirement
29. September 2017
Rich Johnston is retiring from the pastorate of Second (Indianapolis, Ind.) RPC. Yet, like a lot of retirees, he may be moving into a busier phase of ...
Mobilizing the Saints for Service
29. September 2017
Beware the barrenness of a busy life,” warned Socrates. The words of the ancient Greek philosopher ring as true in our generation as they did in ...
Marijuana and the Church
07. August 2017
This interview captures a candid discussion among pastor-friends who are ministering in areas affected by the legalization of marijuana. These pastors ...
Into the Wilderness and Back
24. May 2017
Theological Foundations Backpacking Trip (TFB) is a program hosted by the Westminster RPC with the help of other congregations along the front range ...
A Peg in His Holy Place
24. May 2017
Now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God… to give us a peg in His holy place (Ezra 9:8). It once fell to me to read ...
Fifty Million Neighbors
08. March 2017
Fifty million people live in the Northeast I-95 corridor—one out of every six Americans. Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston incubate ...
Working Another Type of Field
08. March 2017
I grew up in Tennessee on 200 acres of farmland that has been in my family for over 100 years. My father still farms this acreage as a hobby, raising ...
Rebuilding the Walls
08. March 2017
In the dramatic opening of his book, Nehemiah, a trusted official in the Persian Empire, receives news of Jerusalem from Jewish travelers: “The ...
Scotland Reformed
25. January 2017
As we join our fellow Protestants in commemorating the Reformation this year, we rightly look with them to Wittenberg and Geneva. But we also look to ...
John Calvin in Geneva
23. January 2017
Evangelization of Geneva Conversion can only come after someone has heard the gospel, and it was through the evangelistic preaching of William Farel ...
Luther and the Language of the Gospel
23. January 2017
Tongue-Tied? Lately I’ve ventured into textspeak. Instead of writing to my daughter, “I’ll see you at 5:00,” I sent her a text message that ...
Equipping People for a Changing World
23. November 2016
The Witness editor sat down with Calvin Troup just days after his inauguration as Geneva’s 20th president to discuss his long history with Geneva ...
Fun to be Around
23. November 2016
Recently Geneva College experienced a temporary power outage that left students in their apartments on a hot summer evening without electricity. If ...
Into Your Neighbor’s Universe
12. September 2016
Your house might be close to your neighbor’s house, and might even have similar architecture. But when you traipse out your front door, down the ...
A Purpose to It All
15. July 2016
Several years ago I shared my love of words with you in a testimony for the Witness. I’ve lived what seems like at least 8 lifetimes since ...
A Familiar Name and Perfect Timing
15. July 2016
God put a desire in my heart to work in the mission field at a young age. Little did I know that He was calling me to a field right here in the United ...
The Kingdom of Heaven in the Middle Kingdom
13. May 2016
Perhaps thinking of Jesus’ parable of the pearl of great price, Jim Elliot once wrote, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that ...